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Subject: Re: Microcomputers vs. Grandmasters

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 11:55:00 01/30/99

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On January 30, 1999 at 01:05:55, KarinsDad wrote:

>On January 30, 1999 at 00:20:52, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 29, 1999 at 23:53:38, KarinsDad wrote:
>>
>>>On January 29, 1999 at 22:34:54, robert flint wrote:
>>>
>>>>i would has anyone forgotten that fritz3 destroyed deep thought !!!! this should
>>>>be proof alone i agree with matt frank he has a good arguement. brute for means
>>>>nothing it is the qaulity of the program that matters. take a class c player let
>>>>him look at a difficult mate in say 7moves. give this player 5 hours to look at
>>>>the position he may never solve it!!!!!  now let a grandmaster with years of
>>>>expierence look at it for a few minutes and he'll most surely win the win! my
>>>>point is that knowledge will alway overcome brute for!!!
>>>
>>>Destroyed? Could you please tell me when that was? Did it just win a tournament
>>>or did it get crushed in a match? Please provide details (I'm sketchy on stuff
>>>from years ago).
>>Dateline 1995:
>>Fritz wins the Computer Chess World Championship in Hongkong on a P90, beating
>>the two fastest parallel machines in the tournament with Black: Deep Thought and
>>Star Socrates.
>>
>>Pretty historic, because a micro won the open computer chess championship.
>>Now that Deep Blue is counting beans for somebody, it could happen again.
>
>Ok, I was able to find that Fritz3 won the tournament 5-1. Does anyone have the
>crosstable for the games?
>
>It doesn't seem that a 5-1 victory in one tournament is destroying, but I guess
>others will disagree since Fritz3 was on a micro whereas Deep Thought and Star
>Socrates were on MP machines.
>
>KarinsDad

I don't have the crosstable, but there should be an account of it here on this
web site since past Computer Chess Reports are online here.  As I recall, Fritz
won the game due to Deep Blue castling into an attack.  I vaguely recall that it
was a poor book line that caused the whole thing.  I would not put much faith in
that one result.  My guess is that given a large number of games, that Deep Blue
would beat Fritz 3 (or any other version for that matter) by such a lopsided
margin it would be hard to tally.

Roy



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